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The Calendar app tries hard to appear like a paper desk calendar, but
here's one area where paper just wouldn't cut it. To juggle several kinds
of events—business, personal, kids' schedules, and so on—you'd need
separate physical calendars (or a handful of colored pens). Here you can
include digital calendars for each category, color-code them, and show or
hide them as you please.
New calendars must be created in your desktop software and synced to
the iPad. Once there, in the Calendar app, tap the Calendars button and
tap the ones you wish to hide (the checkmark disappears) (
Figure 10.9
).
The events are still there, but they aren't cluttering up your calendar views.
Figure 10.9
Choosing
calendars
to show
Over the years, my list of contacts has grown in size to the point where
I know some of the information is out of date, but I don't have the time
or desire to clean it all up. And really, I don't need to. The Contacts app
stores it all for me so I can easily find a person's essential information.
Contacts also ties in to many other areas of the iPad, feeding email
addresses for Mail and physical addresses for Maps. When you start
